Parliamentary Retort To Mr Cullen
Answering the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Cullen, who said at Edgecumbe on Tuesday night that “probably the present Member for Bay of Plenty would not mind a spell from Parliament,” Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., said at Ngongotaha last night that it was not for Mr Cullen to select the Member for the l3ay, but the present Member was “neither short of breath nor overweighted.” If Mr Cullen could draw only a doubtful 50 in the centre of a large dairying and primary producing district like Edgecumbe which is the centre of the Rangitaiki Plains, it would appear that a change in the charge of Agriculture was desirable. He added that Mr Cullen has an opponent called Jones, usually known as Jonah, and surmised that at Hastings this time it might be a case of Jonah swallowing the whale.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 59, 4 November 1949, Page 5
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